The IPHU course on Equity and Health Rights for young health activists and professionals working on the issues oh Health, Gender, Human Rights and particularly involved in the activities JSA/People’s Health Movement was started yesterday with 36 participants (29 from India, 3 from Nepal, 1 from Bngladesh and 2 from Srilnka).
Participants of this course are with mixed backgrounds ranging from Medicine, public health, social work, anthropology and management. The course is being organized from 15th to 21st March 2008 by IPHU, PHM/JSA in collaboration with Prayas, Chittorgarh.
David Legge, Armando, Thelma Narayan, Tej Ram and Narendra with us as faculty members and Mira Shiva, Ravi Duggal, Vandana Prasad and Amit Sengupta will be joining us in coming days.
We are also going to organise a public lecture for larger audience on 'Equity and Health Rights in the Era of Globalisation' on 18th evening. The key speakers of this public lecture will be David Legge and Armando De Negri. Mr. Parmesh Chandra, Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Rajasthan will preside. Representatives of media will be also be invited to the public lecture.
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HOW I SEE THE IPHU JAIPUR COURSE
While coming to Jaipur, I was wondering what would be the issueS that would be discussed in IPHU Jaipur!
But the experience was however rich w.r.t. how globalization is affecting the cash flows from the poor to the rich and also how the economies of the third world countries are being adversely affected by this negative cash flow and thereby ultimately affecting the budget allocations to health which are around 1% of total GDP of these countries.
Also an eye opener was the Brazellian system of health and how they were able to convince the government that the HEALTH IS A BASIC HUMEN RIGHT, therefore making health as a state responsibility. We can learn many a lessons from this type of system and PHM and other social organizations need to strive to make health as a right in India and build a strong movement of masses around this issue so that the governments are not able to skirt their responsibility as for as the issue of health is concerned.
Equal access or universal access to health was another interesting topic that need wide discussion at various fora. The increasing inequalities w.r.t health expenditure/capita and accessibility to health care are a cause of worry. The detailed understanding of how the increasing control in the name of TRIPS and GATTs is hampering the access to drugs and healthcare facilities was mind boggling and we need mechanisms that need to be more oriented towards the disadvantaged.
The issue of environment and health also evoked a lot of interest as it was vividly explained that how the industry thriving on the subsidy and polluting the earth leading to unsubsidized healthcare availability to those who are affected by this exposure to industrial pollution.
The reports from the practice were very interesting whereas different activists are able to highlight various activities being done by them and many of these activities are worth replicating e.g. exposure of spurious drugs by JSA Himachal.
Similarily the groups that worked on different hot topics of pubic health came out with the practical solutions.
I think that more task oriented assignments w.r.t. overall situation on health need to be given so that ACTION RESEARCH MODELS ARE DEVELOPED COUNTRYWISE to bring down the issues from the global perspective to the local action!
THANKS
DR. OMESH BHARTI, JAN SWASTHYA ABHIYAN, HIMACHAL PRADESH, INDIA.
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